Our First Ten Years of Leading With Love: Transforming Cultures Through Interdisciplinary Discourse

Editor-in-Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies Riane Eisler writes about how much the tenth anniversary of this journal means to her. She thanks those who founded IJPS, as well as its global readership, for bringing international attention to the urgent need for a cultural transformation from domination to partnership at our time of mounting existential threats such as climate change and nuclear weaponry. Eisler tells us how the questions that led to her work are deeply rooted in her childhood experiences, explains how the new social categories of partnership and domination came out of her interdisciplinary research, and briefly outlines each of their core configurations. She connects the personal and the political, sharing her 45-year partnership with the late social scientist David Loye, appeals to us to do everything we can to accelerate the shift from domination to partnership worldwide, and shows the important role IJPS has in this needed social and cultural transformation.